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Columnist Michelle Slatalla at The New York Times found that watching her daughter play lead to a remembrance of her own imagination.
“I have to write a script for my volcano movie,” Clementine said happily.
Just watching so much creativity percolate can be exhausting to an older generation.
But I remember a time — let’s call it the first half of my life — when I woke up every morning feeling just like Clem. Opportunities were coming to me, I just knew it, and ideas were bursting out, and the rest of the world felt like support staff, standing by to help me achieve my grandest ambitions. In those days, I trusted, instinctively, that at any moment I was on the verge of learning something that would further expand my empire of knowledge, context and imagination.
Recently I taught my sister how to set up a blog. She wanted to start one as an outlet for her budding career as a photographer. Inspired she went on to set up another one for her drum circle. She told me today how much she is enjoying the creative expression and fun of blogging. In exchange for my lessons my sister took some photographs of me because I'm in need of a current head shot. I was her first portrait photography subject so I once again provided a way for her to develop her creativity and imagination.
Lately I've had a desire to take up and learn to paint. I've got an itch to rev up my imagination and try new ways of being creative. Learning new things can invigorate life and pull you out of ruts. Feeling like a kid again is an terrific way to deal with midlife ennui.
Julia Child, as many are either learning or being reminded, figured out this trick. After a career as a spy, she took up cooking and published her first book at age 49. Grandma Moses and Laura Ingalls Wilder are other women who found creative outlets later in life.
How have you reignited your childhood creativity?
If you are still looking for inspiration, however, I found some bloggers who might just spark your imagination.
Pak Zawi has taken up painting at age 59 as his new hobby
With the interest in blogging beginning to wane, I decided to pick up a new hobby to fill up my abundant free time. Time is one luxury that a retiree like me could have. Often times such times are wasted doing nothing. I might as well use it to paint. Not house painting which is something I do only once in at least after five years when the house paint begins t fade. The kind of painting I have in mind is oil painting on canvas.
The interest on oil painting was rekindled when I saw some oil paintings of the Japanese carps normally known as kois by Chegu Mazeri Othman at his mother's house in Kg. Tok Sangkut. The desire to own one of the pieces by him was curtailed when he said he isn't selling them since he will be using them to fill up the walls of his new house.
KK at Preppy Pink Crocodile asks: A Cool New Hobby or A Desperate Cry For Help ... You Decide!
I swear that if I don't get out of my kitchen this summer, y'all are going to quit being my friends! I'm losing followers right and left lately. But I'm just so into kitchen experiments these days. They are all really working out too- only egging me on to play more with my food!
Stephany Aulenback at Crooked House found My New Hobby: Crow Divination
MRSEM at EmilyStyle reports: Things I Love Today: My New Hobby
Last night, I became the proud owner of a gigantic acoustic bass guitar. Honestly, it's about 4 1/2 feet long.
I think I may have uncovered my secret musical talent with this instrument.
BlogHer CE Debra Roby offers Kids Crafty Tutorials but there is no reason why adults can't learn them, too!
BlogHer CE Maria Niles is getting her creativity on at her new blog 3x5x60.
